Georgia Tech's Teaching Assistant "Jill Watson" Turns Out To Be A Robot!

Kim Bussing
Sat, 10 Sep 2016 07:27:11 -0700

At the end of the spring semester in May, students taking Georgia Tech’s online Knowledge-Based Artificial Intelligence course received some stunning news. Jill Watson, one of the nine teaching assistants (TA’s) that had helped them navigate the challenging course for the past five months was not a “she,” but an “it” — an intelligent robot to be precise!